I completely agree. Out of all the persuasions I would think the true centrist are those most interested in keeping ACTUAL democracy in tact. I know I do.
The dead give away of this article, is the fact he groups North America and Europe. The US, Canada, The EU and non EU countries in Europe are all completely different animals. It’s like saying a shark is a bear.
The second thing is his numbers only run until ‘14 where you see a decline during the Obama era.
This dude is a hack, pushing a leftist agenda to attack the far right by using anti-centrist propaganda. I’m honestly surprised the editors at The NY Times even let this dude publish this.
To quantify this from my own person opinion, I DIDNT VOTE for either Clinton or Trump because I believe they are both corrupt and leaning authoritarian governments potentials. Moving us further away from an actual democracy to promote personal and their political party gains.
And I know all you left hands out there will be like But, But, But! Clinton would have promoted socialist ideals, free thought and openness! I call bullshit on you all, Clinton was just as Authoritarian as trump, just in a different, perhaps more refined way.
Obama pushed freedom, socialist and civil rights. There was a reason he picked the staff for Hillary’s state department and turned down numerous appointees she wanted.
I personally could give a poo if a dude wants to marry another dude, if a woman wants to get an abortion, if someone wants a sex change or any other human right. Id dare say I’m more socialist than most of you lefties.
Far left/Far right here and in much of America don’t even have a clue what Socialism actually is. They haven’t lived in Canada or the Scandinavian countries(personally, I have, I have seen the differences firsthand). I can’t believe he even tried to associate them to America or more strict European governments.
Again he is just trying to attack the middle, and guilt them by way of proxy.

Despicable.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/19/us/texas-school-shooting-exits-trnd/index.html
A) you always have to have primary and secondary Ingresses and Egresses.
B) If the students only had one exit. How many of them more would have been shot.